Producer Of Broadway ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Files Angry Countersuit Against Harper Lee’s Estate

Responding to the suit filed last month by Tonja Carter, Lee’s attorney and executor, arguing that Aaron Sorkin’s script deviates too much from the novel, a $10 million countersuit filed Monday argues that “the Agreement did not give Ms. Lee approval rights over the script of the Play, much less did it give her a right to purport to edit individual lines of dialogue. It certainly did not give such rights to Ms. Carter, who is not an author, editor, literary agent or critic, and has no known expertise whatsoever in theater or writing.”